Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i5-14500T

Core i7-7820X vs Core i5-14500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14500T beats the Core i7-7820X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-7820X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500T. Despite this, the Core i5-14500T has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.